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I may have missed something....But, I do not believe he said anything about prison population, and pot smoking.
Putting dope smokers in jail/prison is a waist of time in my OPINION... But, ..Who am I to judge? In my business ,dope smokers get people killed.... If I have a guy next to me on a high rise building(no pun intendeed).... HE better be sober, or we will have a problem. I will "Call him out". There are certain jobs ,that require sobriety....,and that is one.
I had a friend who work derricks (oil field). He never went on the job when he wasn't high. Either Coke or pot. He was listed as the companies #1 man in the derricks.
His LAST job. He was straight, he had run out, and dropped by my house to see if we had any weed. Which we did not.
3 hours later, he fell 90 feet.
But he was straight that day.
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now that our goverment stopped getting the handout from the drug dealers they need to find a way to make money off it again so tax it .they need to be finding a way to make up for all that spending of our grandchildrens,grandchildrens tax that when they are born we will half to explain to them about the dream or brain fart our goverment had in 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With polls showing the legalization of marijuana gaining public support, and a state budget crisis fueling an ever-more-desperate search for revenue, backers of the first major statewide initiative to legalize marijuana for personal use - and allow counties to tax and regulate the drug - say they're preparing to get the matter on the November 2010 ballot. "We think the tides have turned," said Richard Lee, the executive director of Oaksterdam University, a major medical marijuana dispensary and advocacy group in Oakland, and a founder of TaxCannabis2010.org, sponsor of the initiative. He said polls showing voters' support for legalization and taxation of the drug, combined with the financial strains of a recession, mean that "this will be a landmark opportunity that will generate interest and funds nationwide." If successful, Lee said, the initiative will be viewed as a watershed - "a first step in changing federal law."
A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found "convincing evidence" that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer development in humans. Using a newly developed highly sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method, the University of Leicester scientists found clear indication that cannabis smoke damages DNA, under laboratory conditions. They have now published the findings in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology1. The research was carried out by Rajinder Singh, Jatinderpal Sandhu, Balvinder Kaur, Tina Juren, William P. Steward, Dan Segerback and Peter B. Farmer from the Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine and Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Raj Singh said: "Parts of the plant Cannabis sativa, also known as marijuana, ganja, and various street names, are commonly smoked as a recreational drug, although its use for such purposes is illegal in many countries. "There have been many studies on the toxicity of tobacco smoke. It is known that tobacco smoke contains 4000 chemicals of which 60 are classed as carcinogens. Cannabis in contrast has not been so well studied. It is less combustible than tobacco and is often mixed with tobacco in use. Cannabis smoke contains 400 compounds including 60 cannabinoids. However, because of its lower combustibility it contains 50% more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and benzopyrene, than tobacco smoke."
I had a friend who work derricks (oil field). He never went on the job when he wasn't high. Either Coke or pot. He was listed as the companies #1 man in the derricks.
His LAST job. He was straight, he had run out, and dropped by my house to see if we had any weed. Which we did not.
3 hours later, he fell 90 feet.
But he was straight that day.
I have meet such people.... and been such a guy... just not today, or for a while now. If I understand you correctly..."To each his own"?
Funny how so many people who use this "Nonaddictive" drug will often have bills unpaid, kids needing shoes, unmaintained vehicles, and other assorted shortcomings, but will always have a quarter in the lamp base or refrigerator (because the cops NEVER look in there). I saw it that way for years back in the day, still hear about it now.
Most of the "pothead" friends I had in school grew up to run there own biz partly because they do not get tested
Shades of Bob Marley! We knew about the carcinogens long ago (but people prefer to ignore such "scientific rubbish"...) but the DNA thing is no surprise either.
People seem to love to ignore statistics because there are always anomolies to statistics. For example: 85% of cigarette smokers will get cancer. When talking to smokers, they always quote from the 15%, such as "My grandma smoked until she was 80 and was just fine." Well, if you were going to fly somewhere and the pilot came on the intercom and said, "There's a 15% chance that we're going to make it there", would you want to take that flight? I've known guys who could run five miles, but the fact is, most smokers huff and puff a bit just climbing one flight of stairs. That's smoking.
...and I guarantee you I can spot almost all of the dope smokers on a crew in one day, just watching them work. I do this as a field supervisor, and I'm almost always right. The tunnelvision and lack of inertia gives them away, even when straight. But I don't fire people for being straight on the job. I just keep a closer eye on these guys, because they'll always tend to be a danger to others, and we can't afford the extra insurance when things happen. My better performers aren't always the fastest: they're just working smarter using their heads - not imagining that they're using their heads.
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Lawmakers Call for an End to Federal Marijuana Prosecutions
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June 18, 2009
Washington, DC: Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, along with co-sponsors Ron Paul (R-TX); Maurice Hinchey (D-NY); Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA); and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), will reintroduce legislation today to limit the federal government’s authority to arrest and prosecute minor marijuana offenders.
The measure, entitled an “Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults,” would eliminate federal penalties for the personal possession of up to 100 grams (over three and one-half ounces) of cannabis and for the not-for-profit transfer of up to one ounce of pot – making the prosecutions of these offenses strictly a state matter.
Under federal law, defendants found guilty of possessing small amounts of cannabis for their own personal use face up to one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.
Passage of this act would provide state lawmakers the choice to maintain their current penalties for minor marijuana offenses or eliminate them completely. Lawmakers would also have the option to explore legal alternatives to tax and regulate the adult use and distribution of cannabis free from federal interference.
To date, thirteen states have enacted laws ‘decriminalizing’ the possession of marijuana by adults. Minor marijuana offenders face a citation and small fine in lieu of a criminal arrest or time in jail.
“The federal government has much more important business to attend to than targeting, arresting and prosecuting adults who use marijuana responsibly,” NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre said. “This is an issue that ought to be handled by the states, not the Feds.”
According to nationwide polls, three out of four voters believe that adults who possess marijuana should not face arrest or jail, and one out of two now say that cannabis should be regulated like alcohol.
The reintroduction of the Frank/Paul bill comes one week after the duo reintroduced HR 2835, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act of 2009 – which seeks to halt federal interference in states that have enacted medical marijuana laws – and just days after Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) called for federal legislation to sentence certain first-time marijuana offenders to 25 years in prison.
“The US Congress has a definite choice,” said St. Pierre. “They can choose the path of compassion, fiscal responsibility, and common sense by supporting Barney Frank’s and Ron Paul’s efforts, or they can continue down America’s failed drug war path by endorsing Rep. Kirk’s draconian legislation. It is abundantly clear which direction the voters wish to go; will their elected officials follow?”
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The other side of the DNA issue. Obvouslly a little bias here, but Fox is also bias in their reporting, so it's good to have both sides of the arguement.
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Fox News is running an alarmist story today under the outrageous headline, [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.
The ‘news’ story, which several other mainstream media outlets are also promoting, is based on a new British [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. assessing the effects of, ahem, “calf thymus DNA treated in vitro (in a Petri dish) … with the smoke generated from 1, 5, and 10 cannabis cigarettes.”
Yes, really.
So how did Fox “We report, you decide” News summarize this non-story? Let’s take a look.
What Fox News reported: “Smoking marijuana not only gets you high, but it also alters your DNA.”
What the study actually said: “[T]hese results provide evidence for the DNA damaging potential of cannabis smoke, implying that the consumption of cannabis cigarettes may be detrimental to human health with the possibility to initiate cancer development.”
What Fox News reported: “There have been many studies on the toxicity of tobacco smoke,” researcher Rajinder Singh said in a news release. “Cannabis in contrast has not been so well studied.”
What Fox News didn’t report: From the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. of the scientific journal Medicinal Research Reviews, “Research on the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabinoids and endocannabinoids has reached enormous proportions. … [A]pproximately 15,000 articles on Cannabis sativa L. and cannabinoids and over 2,000 articles on endocannabinoids (are available in the scientific literature).”
What Fox News reported: “Singh said cannabis smoke contains 400 compounds including 60 cannabinoids. It also contains 50 percent more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and benzopyrene, than tobacco smoke, Singh added.”
What Fox News didn’t report: From the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. of the scientific journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, “Vaporization of marijuana does not result in exposure to combustion gases, … and [was] preferred by most subjects compared to marijuana cigarettes. … The Volcano [vaporizer] device is an effective and apparently safe vehicle for THC delivery, and warrants further investigation in clinical trials of cannabis for medical purposes.”
What Fox News reported: “‘The smoking of 3-4 cannabis cigarettes a day is associated with the same degree of damage to bronchial mucus membranes as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day,’ the team wrote in the journal.”
Except for the fact that it isn’t.In fact, here’s what Donald Tashkin of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, had to say about the subject earlier this month in an interview with the McClatchy newspaper chain. (**Note: Dr. Tashkin has performed US-government sponsored studies of marijuana and lung function for over 30 years and is considered to be the United States’ — if not the world’s — foremost expert on the subject.)
“What we found instead was no association (between marijuana smoking and cancer) and even a suggestion of some protective (anti-cancer) effect. … Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects. But at this point, I’d be in favor of legalization (of marijuana). I wouldn’t encourage anybody to smoke any substances. But I don’t think it should be stigmatized as an illegal substance. Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm.”
Just for the record, in 2006, Tashkin led the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. (yes, Dr. Tashkin actually performed research on humans, not ‘calf thymus DNA’) ever to assess the use of marijuana and lung cancer risk. The study, which included more than 2,200 subjects (1,212 cases and 1,040 controls), reported that marijuana smoking was not positively associated with cancers of the lung or upper aerodigestive tract – [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
Let the folks at Fox put that in their pipe and smoke it.
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